Ask The Troops About Kerry's Bad Joke

November 15, 2006|Jon Whitney BOCA RATON

I have a fair way to settle the controversy in response to Friday's "Kerry is a traitor to his country" letter . Why don't we ask the troops in Iraq this question: Would you be more upset by a bad joke from a senator (a decorated Vietnam veteran) while speaking on a college campus? Or by a president (whose wealthy parents pulled strings to make sure he would never serve in Vietnam) and his administration who unconscionably sent you young men and women into war with Iraq without the proper body armor and proper armor for your vehicles, which has resulted in thousands of needless deaths and injuries to enlisted men and women?

I ask the letter writer, can you tell me that the president's mismanagement and underfunding of the troops in Iraq is not giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Who is the real traitor to his country?